Fear and Fortune. Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush, Paperback/Mette M. High

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early...